"If I were the Man in the Moon," Beck says in a video previewing the event, what would I think about where we were and where we were headed?" Beck said. He said it's the biggest spectacle he's ever attempted — telling the "American story" from the beginning of time to today.

The Man in the Moon, Beck says, is angry about "some of the choices we have made."

"At one point, you'll be sucked inside the moon and see what he knows we are capable of," he says. "This is the American story told in a radically different way — you will love, you will ponder, and you will think about [it] for a long time to come."

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